Posts Tagged ‘festival’
Night and Day
KRISTIAN LIN FRI ? 11 Southlake Town Square will be a colorful place this weekend from hosting the Southlake Butterfly Festival. The three-day event (which benefits various children’s charities) features a raffle and presentations ...
Night and Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 2 Taylor Hicks drops into Casa Mañana’s production of Grease to sing “Beauty School Dropout.” We think Clay Aiken would be a better fit for the song both vocally and as a stage presence, but it’s ...
America’s Original Art Form
HearsayIt’s jazz, but can you define it? I guess I’m left paraphrasing Potter Stewart‘s response to pornography: I know jazz when I hear it. Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and The Bad Plus qualify. George Clinton and...
Mayfest: Maybe Not
JEFF PRINCEDepending on whom you ask, the city of Fort Worth’s decision to cancel this year’s Mayfest just two hours before it was set to begin was either an over-reaction made in the wake of a misunderstood swine flu epidemic...
Absolutely Fabulous
With Turandot and Lucia di Lammermoor, the Fort Worth Opera Festival continues climbing to new heights.Stage
You couldn’t have asked for bigger contrast than the Fort Worth Opera Festival’s opening in Bass Performance Hall last weekend.
Opera Festival Under Way
Big TicketIf you’re wondering what happened to the Chinese acrobats stranded in the United States after their booking agent went belly up, wonder no more. They’ve come West and will be doing their tumbling in Fort Worth.
Q’d Up
Fort Worth’s gay film fest turns 10, with angst, accomplishments – and fewer rainbow flags.Jimmy Fowler
Pretend you’re hitting the Netflix web site to rent a movie for the weekend, and these are your only choices: a romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Patrick Dempsey as star-crossed lovers, an action thriller featur...
Keys to the Future
A major piano festival and one of the best piano schools around play softly at TCU.KRISTIAN LIN
On a lazy summer evening at TCU’s Ed Landreth Auditorium, a casual observer probably couldn’t tell that one of Fort Worth’s most significant musical events is taking place.
Death, Thou Shalt Die
Big TicketA whole slew of events this week is going on thanks to the More Life Festival.
Q Cinema
Is the movie at the Modern this week the tip of a Fort Worth film revolution?KRISTIAN LIN
Bo Parker speaks in torrents. His conversation, cloaked with the terminology of marketing and design, crackles with ideas.